CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Victim's mother taking care of grandchild--(The News & Observer)-- Rae Carruth's son was released into the care of the mother of the girlfriend he is charged with conspiring to kill, one day after a judge determined that the former Carolina Panthers player fathered the 6-week old boy |
| CAMERON DIAZ - actress Los Angeles, California Something about Diaz--(C-News) Passport, $7G's lifted from actress' purse. |
| ITHACA, Michigan Plea bargain in works for corrections officer--(The Saginaw News)--A state Department of Corrections officer who planned to sell marijuana to inmates at the prison where he worked apparently will avoid going to prison. |
| IONIA COUNTY, Michigan Saranac man arrested at New York's Y2K bash--(The Grand Rapids Press)--For years, George James wanted to attend the big New Year's Eve bash at Times Square in New York City. James got his wish Friday -- but New York authorities want to know why the Ionia County resident entered the city's jammed Y2K celebration with a loaded shotgun and handcuffs. |
| VAN ZANDT COUNTY, Texas A man is dead and police believe two hitchhikers may have killed him.--(MSNBC)--The hitchhikers told the victim they were headed to Shreveport or Florida. Authorities in those cities and here in Texas are looking for them NEW LONDON, Texas Attorney says dead coach had drugs--(MSNBC)--Was self defense a teenage girl’s motive in the stabbing death of an East Texas basketball coach? The girl’s attorney says drugs were found in the home of the coach after he was stabbed to death. |
| MORTEZA AMINI MOQADDAM, 17 - sentenced to death Tehran, Iran Killer reprieved on scaffold--(BBC) An Iranian teenager has been reprieved after standing on a scaffold in Tehran with a noose around his neck for half-an-hour on Sunday while his family begged for mercy. |
| Woman charged in bank standoff --(The Wichita Eagle)--A woman who was captured an hour into the new year in an Olathe bank was charged Saturday with attempted bank robbery and brandishing a firearm. |
| JAVED IQBAL - confessed serial child killer Lahore, Pakistan Serial killer: I stopped at 100 children--(Florida Sun-Sentinel) The confessed mass murderer had spent much of the past month hiding in a culvert and later a cave. He looked haggard. His clothes were dirty and wrinkled and wet. He was holding two satchels, one filled with eggs, the other with apples. |
| SAN FRANCISCO, California Pedestrians Attacked With Cleaver--(The Milwaukee Journal)--A man wielding a meat cleaver attacked pedestrians as he ran down a busy city street Saturday. |
| George Harrison - Stabbed by intruder LONDON, ENG. Ex-Beatle Harrison Leaves Hospital After Stabbing (Reuters ) Former Beatle George Harrison has been discharged from hospital to begin a belated New Year at home with his family after being stabbed in a life-and-death struggle with an intruder, hospital officials said WAILUKU, Hawaii Woman held for breaking into George Harrison's Maui estate--(Nando Times)--Cristin Keleher is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 11 on charges of first-degree burglary and fourth-degree theft. Prosecutors said Keleher had been stalking Harrison. Don Carroll, who manages the estate, said she had approached him in October and said she wanted to meet Harrison. |
| TARRANT, AL Charge filed in road rage incident (Birmingham (AL) News ) An assault charge has been filed against a Tarrant man accused of jumping out of his car in Christmas Eve interstate traffic and shocking a pregnant woman with a stun gun, police said Friday PHOENIX, AZ Inmates use Web to make contact outside (The Arizona Republic ) It sounds like any other personal ad: "Black male, 34 years old, 6'1", 210 pounds in excellent physical condition DALLAS, TX Dallas man plans to live year exclusively online (ChicagoTribune ) In an effort to prove how wired the world has become, a 26-year-old former computer systems manager walked into an empty Dallas house on Saturday with a laptop computer and said he doesn't plan to leave until 2001. CHARLOTTE, NC Businesswoman kills man discovered inside her office, police say (Charlotte (NC) Observer ) Judus Lewis Caudle had an extensive criminal history, with convictions ranging from breaking and entering to possession of stolen property CHICAGO, IL Calumet City woman's cause of death ruled strangulation, drowning (Munster (IN) Times ) A body found in the Little Calumet River near the Beaubien Woods boat launch Friday afternoon was positively identified as Lois Thomas, 20, of Calumet City |
| MAHOPAC, N.Y. Family found poisoned, shot to death (Corpus Christi (TX) Caller-Times ) A woman deliberately left a car running to poison her husband and children with carbon monoxide, then shot them in their beds and killed herself with a shotgun, police said Saturday |
| Laci Dawn Hill - Murdered Steven Ray Thacker - Fugitive - wanted for murder Police say suspect is cornered (Tulsa World ) Missouri police continued their search Saturday for a man charged in the death of a Bixby woman, who was allegedly abducted and murdered last week by a man who answered her classified ad about a pool table |
| Jason Franklin (6) -Found dead in playground DUNDALK, ONT. Police continue investigation into death of boy found hanging from playground structure on New Year’s Eve (Vancouver Sun ) Provincial police continued their investigation Saturday into the death of a young boy found hanging from a playground structure on New Year's Eve. Jason Franklin, 6, was found suspended from the top fence rail of a back-yard play centre Friday afternoon in this town, about 65 kilometres south of Owen Sound, Ont |
| CRIME FILES JUSTICE STORY London - May 6, 1927 The Body in the Trunk --(NY Daily News) The finding of a woman's body in a trunk at London's Charing Cross railway station ignited a Scotland Yard investigation of impressive proportion. Arthur Conan Doyle expressed great interest in the case, and perhaps he, or his Sherlock Holmes, learned something from it. |
| READING, Pa Distraught Father Kills Wife, Three Children and Self -- (Fox) A machine-shop foreman shot and killed his wife and her three children on Saturday, then called 911 to admit to the slayings before committing suicide, authorities said. Shootings, deaths not a dream (Allentown (PA) Morning Call ) |
 Reservoir Killing - A Shocking Mystery -- (website maintained by "geo7") The oldest daughter of Polish immigrants Ursula and Janus, Agnes Ziemlewski struggled to fit into a world that is not always kind to gentle spirits. Certainly it wasn't kind to her. Early one Thursday evening, September 24th 1998, Agnes drove to the nearby West Hartford, Connecticut, reservoir, where she walked frequently. She parked her black 1996 Dodge Avenger and set off for a walk, leaving her purse in the car. At about 5:30 pm she was shot multiple times at close range while on a path about 100 feet from a fence on Old Mountain Road. Unsolved Crimes: Website of the Week -- (CyberSleuths.com) Contains links to previously featured sites. |
| Barbara C. Barnes - Murdered Mark Barnes - Suspect ORONO, ME Police ask TV's help in search for suspect (Portland (ME) Press Herald ) State police have turned to a national television show for help in finding a man suspected of murdering his mother. |
| Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada Bathroom booby-trap puzzles police--(C-News) RCMP are mystified why someone put an explosive booby-trap in a highway rest-area washroom, rigged to explode when someone entered. |
| Reading, Pa. Distraught father shoots wife, children and self--(Fox News) The victims' identities have not been released. |
| Wenatchee, Washington Suit Arising From Child Sex Cases Settled--(Washington Post) A Pentecostal minister, his wife and a Sunday school teacher who were acquitted of charges in the 1994-95 Wenatchee child sex cases have settled a civil rights lawsuit against the state for $850,000. |
| PILAR RODRIGUEZ, 4 - missing and presumed dead Punta Gorda, Florida Lake debris studied in search for girl--(Florida Times-Union) Charlotte County sheriff's detectives won't know for at least two months whether human remains of 4-year-old Pilar Rodriguez were found when a lake was searched for evidence, a sheriff's spokesman said this week. |
| TORONTO, CANADA Man shot by police at Toronto hospital (CBS News ) Tragedy and anger struck a hospital emergency room in Toronto on New Year's Eve. A man was shot and killed by police after he held a doctor at gunpoint Hospital hostage-taker shot dead by police (Canada-Globe And Mail ) |
| Matthew Shepard Murder Aaron McKinney - Sentenced to life in prison DENVER, CO Killer of Gay Student Is Spared Death Penalty (Los Angeles Times ) Courts: Matthew Shepard's father says life in prison shows 'mercy to someone who refused to show any mercy |
| Laci Dawn Hill - Murdered Steven Ray Thacker - Fugitive FAIR PLAY, MO Police storm house on manhunt lead (Springfield (MO) News-Leader ) Officials in their third day of hunting for accused killer Steven Ray Thacker got something to go on Friday after someone broke into a home, stealing food, camouflage clothing and a combination hunting bow. Lois Thomas - Abducted and Murdered Mary A. Arnold, Evelyn Jackson, Kathryn Amos - Charged with murder DOLTON, IN Divers locate murder victim's body (Munster (IN) Times ) Divers Friday located the body of 20-year-old Lois Thomas, who had been missing since Dec. 20. |
| FORT BRAGG, NC Wife charged in slaying (Fayetteville (NC) Observer-Times ) A 23-year-old woman was charged Friday with stabbing her husband to death on Fort Bragg. MILTON, DE Husband sought in shooting is sighted (Wilmington (DE) News Journal ) Wife, hit six times, found in car |
| George Harrison - Stabbed by intruder LONDON, ENGLAND Stabbed Harrison in Hospital for Millennium (Fox News ) Former Beatle George Harrison spent a peaceful millennium night recovering in hospital after being stabbed in a life-and-death struggle with an intruder at his home, hospital officials said. Man Charged With Trying to Kill Ex-Beatle Is Detained in Psychiatric Unit (Bloomberg ) |
| OLATHE, KA Woman surrenders in hostage standoff (USA Today ) A woman who said she was distraught about her future after losing her job took a group of employees hostage inside a bank Friday, then surrendered about eight hours later after setting her captives free Surrender At Kansas Bank (CBS News ) Woman arrested after holding hostages in bank for eight hours (FOX News ) |
| Women Holding Hostages in Bank -- (ABCnews.com) Six Hostages Released but Standoff Continues ,The first hostage to leave the Bank of America branch in Olathe, Kan., walked out about four hours after the crisis began. An hour later, five other hostages left the bank. But the two women, who police said entered the bank shortly before it was set to close with the intent to rob it, remained inside. |
| EXTON, Pa. Father given leave from job to deal with 'family matters' -- (Nando) A man accused with his wife of abandoning their 10-year-old disabled son at a Delaware hospital has been granted a three-month paid leave from the chemical company he runs. |
| OLATHE, Kan. 5 Hostages Released at Kansas Bank -- (Newsday) Five bank employees taken hostage by two women at a suburban Kansas City bank were released about five hours later, but the hostage-takers remained inside and police didn't know if they were holding other hostages. |
| SAN FRANCISCO Man Held in Fake Bomb Threat -- (Newday) A Missouri man was arrested after allegedly phoning in a fake bomb threat in hopes of delaying a jet long enough for his girlfriend to catch the flight. Security Officials Cautiously Optimistic As Peace and Safety Ring in New Year -- (Fox) Police and security officials around the globe were cautiously optimistic on Friday, as country after country reported almost no violence related to Y2K millennium celebrations and rallies. OLATHE, Kan. Hostages taken at Olathe bank, gunfire heard -- (Fox) Two people entered a suburban Kansas City bank and took at least one hostage Friday evening and gunshots were heard inside the building, police said. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla U.S. teen who killed Ontario boy with car says she loves him -- (Cnews) -- A Florida teenager who will spend at most six months in jail for striking and killing an Ontario boy with her car says she loves the boy and wants a picture of him to carry with her always. |
| Tormented Children -- (NY Times) They are not usually part of our consciousness, these children. They shiver and tremble and act out to the awful imperatives of mental illness. Sometimes they shut down. Sometimes they lash out, attacking others, or they turn their fury on themselves. Often they are the victims of terrible crimes. We do a lousy job of reaching them. |
| Investigators Replaced In Teens' Slaying Case -- (Washington Post) Displeased with slipshod detective work in the case of two Southeast Washington teenagers shot to death Monday, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey dismantled the investigative team, pulling three detectives off the case and sending a lieutenant back to street patrol. |
| A Family Torn by Marijuana -- (Washington Post) Arrested Mom Still 'Baffled' by Teen's Anger: The 16-year-old marched down to the Takoma Park Police Department clutching photographs of her mother's basement marijuana garden and turned her in. |
| WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN County Offers $25 Rewards to Report Drunken Drivers -- (Chicago Tribune) Waukesha County authorities are giving a $25 reward to anyone who calls to report a suspected drunk driver--if the driver is arrested. Safe drinking tips -- (Cnews) Mothers Against Drunk Driving -- (Madd Online) We're real people, moms, dads, young people, and other individuals just trying to make a difference. We are determined to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime, and prevent underage drinking. Drunken Driving Tops New Year's Eve Concerns -- (APBnews.com) A new federal survey finds that Americans are more concerned about sharing the road with drunken drivers this New Year's Eve than in previous years. Consequently, they plan to buckle up, be on the lookout for impaired drivers -- and report them. |
| MANCHESTER, N.H Murder suspect to be returned to Colorado next week -- (Chicago Tribune) A Hudson man will return to Colorado next week to face a murder charge in the disappearance of his fourth wife 25 years ago. |
| BOULDER, Colo. Official Balks at More Cash for Ramsey Probe -- (APBnews.com) A request by the Boulder district attorney for an additional $24,000 to continue the beleaguered JonBenet Ramsey murder probe has at least one county commissioner questioning whether he will approve any additional funding. Crime Beat: All's Quiet on Street Where JonBenet Lived -- (APBnews.com) Life on the street where JonBenet Ramsey lived and died seemed numbingly normal on the morning after Christmas, the three-year anniversary of the discovery of her body. |
| Los Angeles, California Scandals show why innocent plead guilty--(LA Times) The Rampart police probe casts light on cases in which suspects admit to crimes they didn't commit rather than risk much longer prison terms if convicted at trial. |
